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Black-and-White Pumpkins
Black-and-white fabrics give these decorative pumpkins pizzazz! Simply sew a gathering stitch around a fabric circle to form the pumpkins. Stuff the pumpkins with plastic bags to give them their shape. Then pull your gathering stitch tight and tie it in a knot. For the stems, use rolled up black ribbon pinned to the centers. To finish the look, attach orange ribbon and store-bought leaves.
Sewing Basket Pumpkin
Raid your sewing basket to create this cute pumpkin. Glue buttons to spools of thread for eyes, then mount the eyes on triangle-shape fabric scraps with pins. For the nose, glue a thimble to the top of a spool of thread in a second color; attach it to the pumpkin with a pin. A tape measure mouth finishes the look.
Shrieking Pumpkin
Use chunky yarn to spell a scream! Start by cutting a circle in the top of the pumpkin around the stem, and then paint your pumpkin and stem in desired colors (we chose purple). Take a thick needle and start stitching a spook-tacular phrase. To finish, tie the yarn into a knot from the inside to secure the stitches.
Argyle Pumpkin
Cut squares from your fave fabric (we used suede) to tack on point using upholstery tacks. Use an awl to make a pair of holes between each diamond. Poke ends of leather lacing into holes to form an X extending beyond each suede square and secure with upholstery tacks.
Naturally Spooky Pumpkins
These pumpkins take your Halloween decorating for ho-hum to modern! Wrap foam balls with burlap. Wrap black or white ribbon and rickrack accents around the balls, and hold them in place with fabric glue or straight pins. Add a creepy crawler or two to complete the transformation.
Ribbon and Rickrack Pumpkin
For a quick and easy method, decorate your pumpkin with a mix of ribbon and rickrack pieces. Start at the top of the pumpkin near the stem, and hot-glue the trim along the pumpkin veins.
A Pumpkin with Character
Add a pop of personality to a carved pumpkin with a few simple accessories. Cut a mustache shape out of black felt, and use a hot glue gun to adhere it to the face. Dress up an old-fashioned hat by wrapping a measuring tape around the brim. Get creative! Create a whole clan of pumpkin friends with a few fabric shapes and store-bought accessories.
Buttoned Up Pumpkin
Give a pretty pumpkin a ghostly message with a few on-hand supplies. Paint the pumpkin stem using black crafts paint; let dry. Spell a spooky word with black buttons, adhering them to the pumpkin with glue. Tie black wire-edged ribbon into a bow around the pumpkin stem to finish.
Polka Dot Pumpkin
Avoid the mess of carving pumpkins and decorate one instead! Paint a pumpkin white and then use felt furniture pads to create a cascading pattern of black polk dots. It's as easy as that!
Lacy Pumpkin
Drape a pumpkin with a piece of lace for a fancy and fashionable look. Use scissors to cut a small circle (the size of the stem) in the center of the lace piece. Lay the lace over the pumpkin, sliding the stem through the circular opening. Gather the lace at the pumpkin bottom, trimming the excess if necessary. Secure the lace with running stitches in a wheel-spoke pattern.
Scrappy Pumpkin Head
Dress up a painted pumpkin with scraps from your sewing stash. To make the cone-shape hat, trace a circle (about the size of a salad plate) on felt. Cut out the circle, then cut it in half. Roll one half into a cone shape, and secure the edges with fabric glue. (Set the other half aside for another project.) Decorate the hat with assorted ribbon and trim. Cut out a variety of eye, nose, and mouth pieces from assorted felt and cardstock. Adhere the layers to one another with fabric glue. Add gems or pom-poms for pupils. Glue the face pieces to the pumpkin.
Pin bands of ribbons in various prints to a pumpkin to quickly and easily add a surprising embellishment. Dot the pumpkin with whimsical daisies punched from paper and attached with decorative pins.


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The Stonemasters Climb at Pirates Cove
John Long relives the adventures of the Stonemasters when they first began rock climbing at Pirates Cove at Newport Beach, California.
If Rick Accomazzo hadn't gone off to college at the University of California at Irvine, highball bouldering, and the wave of free soloing that swept through Joshua Tree in the 1970s, might not have hit the So Cal climbing scene for another decade.
The adventure began near the university, at a seaside pueblo called Corona del Mar, where Rick and local climbers Mike Graham and Robs Muir (also a UCI student) discovered a seaside bouldering area they called The Beach, aka Pirates' Cove. As soon as Ricky phoned us at home in Upland with directions, Richard Harrison and I drove the hour to Irvine for a look. I still remember jogging along the old cement staircase leading to the sand, and thinking how odd it was that we'd come to the beach to go rock climbing.
From the waterline I gazed back at a gray cliff rearing straight off the beach, sweeping around left like a 100-yard-long breaking wave. The rock was peppered with knobs, flutes and squiggly tan intrusions that looked like they'd snap under bodyweight but turned out to be solid after all. Several caves—flush with driftwood, wine bottles and soiled diapers carried there by high tides—extended into deep shadows at the base of the wall. When Ricky crabbed back into the biggest grotto and started powering out by way of heel hooks and sketchy lunges, finishing up on the 20-foot high face above, Richard and I were amazed.
This was in the early 1970s, when the So Cal rock scene was basically the grainy Josh domes out in the desert, or the slick granite and tall trees at Tahquitz and Suicide. Pulling out roofs on juggy sandstone, with a sand landing, seagulls squawking and waves crashing nearby, felt rare and fantastic. So did climbing 20-, even 30-foot-high problems without a cord, a standard Beach practice that spilled over to Josh in the following years, when classics like White Rastafarian, Up 40 and So High were first climbed.
Ricky, Mike and Robs had the place to themselves only long enough to bag all the classic lines, then we all joined in and on weekday afternoons The Beach started looking like an ant farm. As gaps were filled and variations bagged, a few eyes panned toward the left side of the amphitheater, where the rock got higher and the falls more serious. The left margin of the wall is pretty much garbage, bottom to top. But every Stonemaster was expected to handle his trash rock with conviction.
A notable ascent on this tall wall, and a tick mark in the annals of So Cal highballing, was Mike Graham's Ordinance Crack. The route is a natural seepage and typically ran water, was slimy, loose and just plain awful. When occasionally it would dry out, we'd all screw around with the initial, overhanging jams, but nobody had mustered the sack to commit to the upper headwall, with its sandy flutes and junk rock. When we caught word that Mike had actually climbed the thing, Richard, Tobin Sorensen and I made a special trip to The Beach just to give the crack a go. About the only thing Richard and I knew about Tobin was that he and Mike had recently made an early ascent of Valhalla (one of the country's first 5.11 face routes), out at Suicide. But so long as he was a friend of Mike's, he was a friend of ours.
The left-side rock is sketch to begin with. Perpetual onshore winds ensure that holds are sandy most of the time. A problem could see hundreds of ascents, and shite would still bust off and send you flying. And after a rain or a foggy day, the chalk-caked holds felt like wet soap. You wanted a dry spell, no wind, and a cool winter day before you cast off on the high stuff. Fortunately, we had those conditions when Tobin, Richard and I booted up at the base of Mike's Ordinance Crack, so named because of a yellow metal plaque ("No Jumping or Diving") bolted onto the rock adjacent to the crack. Today, only a few rusty bolts remain of that sign.
Our jamming skills were solid but nevertheless the bottom of the Ordinance Crack was the business—grainy rattlers soaring up into a soggy pod. But it was the exit, treading up crumbling ribs with your boots a genuine 25 feet off the sand, that lit our lamps and make the Ordinance Crack a task even now, 35 years later.
Anyhow, when Richard was traversing off the wall after climbing Ordinance Crack, he noticed a line of chalked holds leading up and right onto a pocked, overhanging headwall called The Brain. The climbing didn't look too hard (it's barely 5.10) but the rock appeared dreadfully shitty, and after a recent high tide, a few boulders were sticking out of the sand at the base of the wall. Richard no sooner mentioned the phantom chalk marks when Tobin suddenly lost his own brain, scrambled up from the left, traversed in and started yanking like mad up the filthy headwall, following the chalk marks and hoping for the best. Naturally he was too fired up to test the holds; the first one broke at about the 25-foot level and he windmilled straight into the sand, barely missing the exposed rocks. This was before Tobin had established his reputation for taking giant whippers, and Richard and I watched in a kind of reverential daze as he pulled straight down on stuff that broke, and kept pitching off from prodigious altitudes. It's fantastic to sit here and realize that the young man we were watching fly through the air would go on and distinguish himself as the greatest all-around climber of the 1970s. Now, almost 30 years after his death, we're still trying to appreciate the extraordinary things Tobin did—from early repeats of Tales of Power and Astroman in Yosemite, to the first ascent of the Dru Couloir Direct in Chamonix, to legendary first ascents in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and later, the Himalaya. That day at The Beach, and even after his technique caught up with his boundless drive, Tobin Sorensen was the greatest show on earth.
Finally he made it, scaling the entire Brain in a big rush. When Richard and I ventured up there as well—Mike G. had delicately soloed The Brain a few days before—we spent many tense minutes testing holds, pulling straight out on alarmingly thin spouts and knobs rather than pulling down for fear of stuff busting and us taking the big one.
Decades later, Ordinance Crack and The Brain remain rites of passage for all Beach aficionados; the stories are legion and multigenerational of crumbling holds and titanic plunges into the sand. Most of the proper climbing is on the roofs and faces across the way, but it's those harrowing choss piles that give The Beach much of its lore and character.
The Beach remains a classic urban bouldering crag with a long and rich history. Most serious So Cal climbers have had their epics there, and that adventurous reputation keeps luring new bodies onto its cave walls, faces and aretes. Ever since Mike, Rick, Robs and the boys first started soloing around on those sandy holds, a fresh and eager band comes along every decade or so and makes the place its own. There's an enchantment in climbing at the edge of the sea. And to every visitor, the tall problems call out, eager to again deliver the big rush when you start pawing up that choss with your feet so high above the sand.
Pirates Cove Now • By Nathan Smith
Arriving in Newport Beach I immediately felt inadequate. Everywhere I looked, I saw Beamers and Benzos, Rolls and Bentleys, Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Other than my trusty beater with 150,000 miles on it, the least expensive car I saw was a Lexus. For a moment I forgot about the nearby climbing and just thought, "Don't get in an accident today."
Famous for stars, fashion and excess, Newport Beach in Southern California does have a more practical silver lining: Tucked away at the back of a beach in this land of silicone-enhanced glitterati lies a natural beauty, Pirates' Cove. The Beach, Corona Del Mar or whatever you'd like to call it, is a seaside nook that was once a proving ground for Stonemasters such as Mike Graham, Randy Vogel, Richard Harrison and John Long.
And when you are done, you can kick back on your beach towel and admire the jiggling handiwork of the area's countless plastic surgeons. Indeed, a stint at the Cove is like touring the pages of a men's magazine—a magazine with superlative bouldering.
The amphitheater of Pirates' Cove holds everything from steep caves to slabby faces, all spackled with funky sea-carved holds that look as if they came straight out of your gym. Pockets, crimps, pinches, tufas and jugs all come together in unusual and uncanny combinations.
As you climb, barking seals occasionally break the surface and taunt passing boats, while gulls and pelicans gather on the rocky outcrops off Newport Bay, where they seemingly enjoy a stint of people-watching. Unhurried waves slap at the beach. When you pitch, golden beach sand cushions your landing better than any pad, but bring a towel to wipe your feet and a good brush to clean the sand off holds.
You won't see the Stonemasters much, if ever, but a small, dedicated local crew climbs regularly here each week and is happy to spill the beta beans about all of their local variants. At the end of a long evening session, cap off your visit by admiring the blazing sunset over Balboa Peninsula.
While not one of the largest bouldering areas around, Pirates Cove is a unique experience in a location as beautiful as the stars that live around it.
Southern California Bouldering Guide | by Craig Fry
Directions | Pirates' Cove is at Corona Del Mar of Newport Beach, California. Follow the Pacific Coast Highway to Marguerite, then turn west (toward the ocean). Go to Ocean Boulevard, turn right (north). Use the fee parking for Corona Del Mar State Beach, or free roadside parking on Ocean Boulevard farther north. The climbing is on the northernmost part of the beach, accessed by stairs descending from a small grassy knoll.
Where to stay | Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort offers tent and RV camping for those with larger vehicles; 1131 Back Bay Drive, off Jamboree Road, near the Pacific Coast Highway; (800) 765-7661. Crystal Cove Newport Beach offers reasonably priced historic cottages. They also offer dorm-style cottages for those wanting an even cheaper alternative. Crystal Cove State Park; 8471 PCH; Laguna Beach; (800) 444-7275 or visit ReserveAmerica for reservations.
Access/Conditions | The climbing is on a public beach—and is not allowed during the busy summer until after 5:00 when most visitors head home. Check tide charts as the water can cover the entire beach during high tide. The sandstone absorbs a lot of moisture; the best conditions are sunny days from spring to fall.
Eats | Sprinkles Cupcakes: Just minutes from the bouldering. Stop in and try one of these amazingly decadent deserts. Corona Del Mar Plaza, 944 Avocado Ave. between Macarthur and Avocado off PC; (949) 760-0003. Ruby's Diner: A longtime local hang. Ruby's burgers are award winning; 2305 E. Coast Highway; (949) 673-7829. Rusty Pelican. A little on the pricier side, The Rusty Pelican makes up for it with fresh seafood and waterfront dining; 2735 W. Coast Highway; (949) 642-3431.


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Apple promised that the eleventh major version of its media cataloging, syncing, and playback app would feature a "dramatically simplified new interface" and better integration with iCloud. So last Thursday, Apple finally released the highly anticipated update to iTunes after an initial one-month delay.
iTunes 11 isn't the ground-up rewrite some users may have expected. It's largely the same jumble of media storing, indexing, and playback for music and video, as well as ePub or PDF books and apps for your iOS devices. While some of the interface changes are indeed welcome, a few features that users relied heavily on have been left on the cutting room floor. More disconcerting, however, is that the release is marred by some confusing bugs despite that extra month Apple engineers spent polishing.
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Apple definitely realized that iTunes had become a little unwieldy for many users. What started as a significant re-skinning of SoundJam MP—a popular MP3 jukebox app for Mac OS 8—has become the mother of all media apps. On top of importing, sorting, and playing back music, iTunes now handles TV shows, movies, and other video files. It organizes and syncs iOS apps for iPhones, iPads, and iPods. It also organizes and syncs (but does not allow users to read) e-books in iBooks, ePub, and PDF formats. It syncs iTunes purchases via iCloud and can access the iTunes store to buy music, apps, books, and more. Today, iTunes can also stream media over AirPlay to other Macs, Apple TVs, and AirPort Express base stations.
Apple has made a concerted effort to rethink the interface and make it cleaner and more approachable. iTunes 11 favors a visual display of your content, showing your music as a collection of album covers, apps as a series of icons, movies as a collection of preview frames, and books as a series of covers. For many users, especially newcomers, this visual organization will probably be a major improvement. More traditional list views are always available with a click, and they still offer detailed metadata in sortable columns.
At the top of the main window is the typical extended toolbar. The design has been refined; opinions on whether this is an improvement or not vary, but we think it looks nice. On the left, pause/play, forward, and back controls no longer appear as individual buttons. Rather, they are large, clickable shapes—not unlike similar controls on iOS. Continuing to the right are a volume slider, an AirPlay button, the central track info window, and the search box at the far right.
The track info window underwent some visual changes, though it does retain its rounded rectangular shape. Most notably, it now includes an icon that resembles a bulleted list to access the "Up Next" feature. Clicking here shows a list of upcoming songs in a pop-over view, with options to rearrange or insert songs into the current playlist. It appears Up Next is meant to replace the now-absent iTunes DJ, though as we'll note later it doesn't quite have all of that feature's functionality.
A new arrow icon pops up next to a song title when you hover over the track info window. Clicking the arrow accesses the contextual menu for the currently playing track. You can rate the track, set it to "play next," or add it to Up Next (perhaps redundant for the currently playing track). You'll also have the option to use the track for a new genius playlist, get related Genius recommendations, or add the song to any playlist. And you can have iTunes go to the track, artist, or album in your library or show where the song is in the iTunes Store. (These contextual options are available for any selected song in iTunes.)
Below the main toolbar is a sort of navbar, which seems meant to replace the sidebar of yesteryear's iTunes. A drop-down menu on the left lets you switch between Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books, Apps, and Tones (ringtones for iPhones, that is). In the middle of this bar will be various options for viewing the selected media type. For instance, if music is active, you can choose to view your music as a list of songs, a grid of albums, a graphical list of artists or genres, or a grid of music videos or playlists... which then opens a sidebar of your playlists on the left, with lists of songs on the right, the usual list of streaming radio stations, and your iTunes Match tracks if you have the feature enabled.
On the right of the navbar are buttons for accessing any connected iOS or iPod devices, as well as a button to access the iTunes Store. Selecting a device shows the now-familiar options for configuring and syncing an iOS device or iPod.
Clicking to iTunes Store button loads the new and improved store, which mimics what we already saw with the iOS 6 update on iOS. Featured content is displayed in an automatically rotating set of 3D-rendered "cards" at the top. Sideways scrolling lists of album, movie, or app icons are arranged under various headings like "New" and "What's hot." The tab bar allows you to narrow the Store's wares to Movies, TV Shows, Apps, etc. Along the side are lists of top sellers in various categories.
One nice touch is the new ability to scan an iTunes Gift card using your Mac's FaceTime camera (or presumably, any suitable webcam). The long strings of numbers and letters that make up the codes on iTunes Gift Cards can be bit of a pain to enter correctly. And according to a developer contracted by Apple to help build the new feature, it's also great for users with disabilities that might otherwise make it near impossible to redeem the gift cards without assistance.
This design isn't exactly new, but Ars Social Editor Cesar Torres suggests the new layout is a "great use of space" and that "the new layout seems to squeeze more titles in there than before."
But users who lament the missing sidebar can rejoice—you can easily bring it back with a simple click in the View menu. Anyone who hated iTunes 10's decidedly drab, monochrome icons in the sidebar will also be happy to note that their old color has returned.
If you also miss the information that once appeared in the bottom status bar of iTunes, you can bring that back, too. However, with the re-arranging of most of the controls that used to live here—in particular AirPlay—the status bar is largely vestigial.
iTunes 11 also brings a new Album view. Here, all your albums are arranged in a scrollable grid. They can be sorted by artist, release year, or other criteria. Click an album, and a more detailed view of that album's songs rolls down. iTunes automatically "themes" this detail view using colors from the album cover for the background and text. It's a subtle but nice touch. An "In The Store" button lets you see what other songs from the artist or album are available.
Another major change is the new "mini player" window. Apple has thankfully stopped using the standard "zoom" window control to activate the mini player, instead adding a specific control just to the left of the standard "full-screen" control on the main toolbar.
In addition, the mini player is a bit more functional than the old design. The same "action" pop-up menu allows you to perform a number of actions on the currently playing song. Hovering over an album icon pops up the artist and song title. You can also access AirPlay, Up Next, and search options directly from the mini player, which gives users a lot of control outside of the main iTunes window.
It's worth noting that you can't switch on the mini player mode if iTunes is running as a full-screen app. But there is a workaround; you can switch iTunes out of full-screen mode, enable iTunes to show up in all spaces, open a mini player window, and then switch the full-size window to full-screen. The only downside: you're then stuck with iTunes showing up on all Spaces when not in full-screen mode. It might be easier for users if Apple simply automatically switched out of full-screen mode when users want to switch to the mini player.
The overall design definitely feels cleaner. Gradients and shadows are subtle, and various lists and organizational interface elements seem to use space more efficiently. Even the judicious use of white space makes the overall interface feel a little less busy.
In particular, Apple replaced the default Lucida Grande UI font from OS X with Helvetica, the main UI font on iOS. The change lends a certain aesthetic to the overall UI, but not everyone has been happy with it. As noted by John Gruber, it does indeed look "gorgeous" on a Retina display Mac (such as the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro I used to check out iTunes 11). Helvetica looks fine on non-Retina displays, but perhaps not as good as the screen-optimized Lucida Grande. The overall design actually feels geared toward Retina displays, right down to the tiny cover art icons that are crisp and recognizable on such displays.
As a bonus, the app seems to be a bit better overall when it comes to performance—at least on OS X. iTunes has never been especially speedy with any sort of sizable library, but long lists of apps and albums in my library scrolled swiftly and smoothly.


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Rachel L. Carson studied biology at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and graduated in 1933 with an MA upon the completion of her thesis, The Development of the Pronephros during the Embryonic and Early Larval Life of the Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). The research that Carson conducted for this thesis project grounded many of the claims and observations she presented in her 1962 book, Silent Spring.
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Filed under: Costa Concordia cruise ship
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Didn't anybody swim to shore?
There are concerns that the ship will slip into deep water. Why don't they tie it up to shore??? There are no lines on the ship yet and I imagine that it will take a lot of lines to secure it. If the ship goes into deep water it will be an even worse situation. Please ask someone why they are not tying it up. Thanks John.
with thousans of tons of weight there isn;t a rope strong enough to hold it,it whould be like trying to hold youre car with a clothes line rope,a big enough chain whold be so hevy you whould need a very large crane just to move it,one link in such a chain weighs about 300 lbs,and is as big as youre dineing room table,dont believe me???? check out an ancor chain on a container ship,or any other large ship.
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Offices use energy more intensively than houses or schools, which are more typical candidates for carbon neutrality, so a carbon neutral office is ambitious in itself. But it's the size of the office block that sets this project apart. Named LPL Financial at La Jolla Commons after its eventual tenant, it joins existing Hines-developed offices at the La Jolla Commons campus in San Diego. The building will host 415,000 ft2 of office space, spread over 13 stories. As office blocks go, that's not enormous—New York's 52-story 7 World Trade Center contains 1.7 million ft2 of premium office real estate—but it's a tall order as far as carbon neutrality is concerned.
Hines' claim is a straightforward one: the building will, averaged over the course of each year, produce more energy than it consumes. This basically matches the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's definition of a Zero-Energy Building, provided that the energy is produced on site and comes from a non-polluting renewable source. But because LPL@LJC (to shorten the office block's name) uses natural gas as its sole source of energy, some have questioned, and even dismissed, Hines' net zero claims—despite the fact that the natural gas isn't actually combusted.
To avoid impinging the office's Class A spec, Hines hasn't, by its own admission, gone as far as it might in reducing LPL@LJC's energy consumption. "You can go sub-40 kBtus, but it can get costly and you may end up having to reduce glass and cutting out natural light," Hines' Global Sustainability Officer Gary Holtzer told Forbes. "We wanted to do this without changing the class-A design." Here, "kBtus" is an industry colloquialism for kBtu per square foot per year, 1 Btu being a unit of energy roughly equivalent to a kilojoule. Forbes reports that the building's energy consumption will be 41.5 kBtu per square foot per year.
That's not to say that LPL@LJC will be without energy-saving tech. It is set to use under-floor air conditioning which, Hines' Senior Managing Director Paul Twardowski told Ars, allows cool air to be delivered at a slightly higher temperature, but at reduced velocity and pressure, than when delivered by overhead duct. In fact, ductwork and secondary motors are largely avoided. All in, the air conditioning will use less energy than a conventional system. The need for AC will be reduced, Hines claims, because the windows will come with a low-emissivity layer designed to reduce problematic heat from the sun.
Hines' approach to energy reduction may be somewhat conservative, but this poses little threat to the building's carbon neutrality; at least, not as Hines defines it. The company is effectively throwing generation technology at the problem. LPL@LJC's entire energy demand will be met electrically, using three parking space-sized Bloom Energy fuel cells, aka Bloom Boxes. Collectively they're capable of generating 5 million kWh of electricity per year. This is more electricity than Hines thinks the building will use. The patented fuel cells take natural gas and generate electricity using a "clean electro-chemical process" which Bloom Energy prefers not to discuss in detail. How clean? Hines claims that the cells produce about half the CO2 emissions of a natural gas power station.
But if the fuel cells emit any CO2, how can the building claim carbon neutrality? Hines intends to buy directed biogas from sources such as water treatment facilities, landfills, and livestock farms—greenhouse gases that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. Yet the issue is muddied by the fact that the US does not yet have a distribution network dedicated to a biogas. The building will actually run on normal gas, but it will offset what it uses with biogas, introduced into the same networks that feed it where possible.
That may seem ambiguous, but Hines is unequivocal in its project FAQ. "We are placing a new 415,000-square-foot office building into service, filled with workers and releasing no new CO2 to the atmosphere."
Strictly speaking, LPL@LJC may well qualify as a carbon neutral building (though the CO2 released during the building's construction is disregarded). Whether it's in the true spirit of a National Renewable Energy Laboratory Zero Energy Building is more questionable. NREL's 2006 discussion (PDF) sets out a design hierarchy which prioritizes energy efficiency followed by on-site supply. Shipping (or piping) in renewable energy sources for on-site generation, or purchasing remotely generated renewable energy, come further down the hierarchy.
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The Human Factor: Fat Joe 'drops a body'
In The Human Factor, we profile survivors who have overcome the odds. Confronting a life obstacle - injury, illness, or other hardship - they tapped their inner strength and found resilience they didn't know they possessed. This week, rapper Fat Joe opens up to CNN Medical News Senior Producer Ben Tinker about his dramatic weight loss.
I was talking to my trainer the other day and he asked, "So when was the last time you were slim?" And I said, "I swear to God, when I was a month or two months old." That was it. I was Fat Joe ever since.
My parents are overweight and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier. They're eating rice, beans, fried chicken and lard. They'll still eating dessert every single night. They think they're doing the right thing, but they're not.
Like I used to love going to my Aunt Barbara's house. I opened the kitchen cabinet and they had every Oreo, every Twinkie. I never wanted to come out of her house. And you know, we're thinking that's love - but at the same time - that's what causing childhood obesity. That's what's causing diabetes and so on.
Diabetes is like a host to the VIP section. Whatever you thought you were going to die of, it's the express line. It takes you to heart disease, strokes, or "Right this way, let's lose some toes."
I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
You know how they say a crackhead or drug addict hits rock bottom? I just hit rock bottom to where I just knew if I didn't make this lifestyle change, I was going to die.
Last year alone, I had six friends die of heart attacks. Most of them were younger than me, but they were my same size. So I had one friend who was funnier than me. He was cooler than me. Obviously God loved him and he still died. I couldn't believe that he died of a heart attack at 32/33 years old. He has a daughter my same age. And it was the weirdest thing. I went to his funeral. Not only was I sad, but I was just like, "This is me." I couldn't see a clearer picture of what's the difference between me and him - of me being in a casket and my daughter running around the funeral home - and you know, she doesn't have a dad anymore.
From that day on, I chose to change my lifestyle. That was the ultimate moment. Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat. It's interesting to me. No, it's incredible. Just the other day, I said "Yo, I think something's wrong. I feel something in here." My trainer starts laughing. "Yo, you've been lifting weight for eight months now. Maybe you've got a muscle in there."
I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat. I represented big people, but I realized at a certain point all my big people were dying.
I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
To this day, I've lost more than 100 pounds. And I got ground-breaking news: You know, I was diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. So I want to let kids know, "Hey, you don't have to be a diabetic." You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
So to all the heavy people in the world, I say you don't have to go to the gym and lift weights. I do that now because I love it. But you can walk 20 minutes a day for your first month - then it's going to be nothing. Then walk 25 minutes a day the next month. The month after that, you're going to walk like 30 minutes a day at least five times a week. I stay active - and mostly - I enjoy what I'm eating.
If you want to stay around, you have to stay focused. I've studied and investigated it to a point where I'm like a scientist now, to be honest with you. So you know, if I did gain it all back, it would be totally my fault because I've got all the tools I need.
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Thomas Friedman says the U.N. ceasefire looks like a failure, but the U.S. could help facilitate a deal with Russia.
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The killing in Syria will continue as long as we the people of the world will stand aside and look, Things can change tomorrow if we the people of the world will stand up and say "no more" . All the countries who are supporting this murderous dictator need to be isolated by the people of the world. We need to have a worldwide boycott of goods and services from China and Rissia and all other countries supporting the Syrian Dictator. This would bring an end to this problem. Spread the word.
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GameManagerService.exe is an executable exe file which belongs to the GameManagerService process which comes along with the Razer Synapse Software developed by Razer software developer.
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Once again, the American Red Cross in Anderson County will recognize individuals who exemplify courage, kindness and unselfish character at its 14th annual Humanitarian Awards Luncheon 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 19 in the Oak Ridge DoubleTree Hotel.
Scottie Mayfield of Mayfield Dairy Farms will serve as keynote speaker; past speakers include Pat Summitt, Gerald Boyd and B.B. Bell. According to information provided by the Red Cross, Mayfield spent many years leading the Boy Scouts and instilling leadership, courage and a sense of community responsibility in young men.
"It is the same principles that make the Red Cross such an important organization," a release stated.
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Nominees must live or work in Anderson County and will be judged by a committee of civic and community leaders. Additional guidelines may be found on the nomination form, or for more information — including luncheon sponsorship opportunities — contact email@example.com or call (865) 483-5642.
"This is a great opportunity to remember those who help all of us by giving their time to help their neighbor," said Scot MacIlveen, who chairs the American Red Cross Leadership Cabinet of Anderson County. "We want to thank our heroes during Red Cross Month: Our volunteers, class takers and financial supporters who help us assist those in need."
The Red Cross responds to nearly 70,000 disasters a year in this country alone — providing shelter, food, emotional support and other necessities to those impacted. It provides 24-hour support to members of the military, veterans and their families — in war zones, military hospitals and on military installations around the world; collects and distributes about 40 percent of the nation's blood supply and trains more than 7 million people in First Aid, water safety and other lifesaving skills each year.
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• Assisted 20 families (83 individuals!) with disaster financial assistance;
• More than 4,500 people attended Red Cross Disaster Services presentations and demonstrations;
• Service to Armed Forces provided casework services for 75 members of the U.S. Armed Forces, veterans and their families;
• The Red Cross offered 72 Health and Safety courses to 864 people in First Aid, CPR, AED and Water Safety; and
• Almost 60 Anderson County volunteers gave more than 2,500 hours for community services including disaster relief, community preparedness, information and referral, and volunteer leadership.
"Red Cross Month is a great time for people to become part of the Red Cross and there are many different ways to do it," MacIlveen said. "They can develop a preparedness plan for their household, become a Red Cross volunteer, give blood, or take a Red Cross class — just to name a few."
Of course, the first thing YOU can do is go online or visit the local Red Cross office to nominate a local hero and/or learn more about sponsorship opportunities regarding the March 19 Humanitarian Awards Luncheon.
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Editorial: The budget and the boomers
With all the talk about the "fiscal cliff," this ought to be an opportunity for Americans to get a lesson in government finances.
Instead, the campaign, and the weeks of jockeying that have followed it, have been marked by vague slogans about taxes and spending. Democrats focus exclusively on taxing high incomes, as if that alone would solve the problem. Republicans keep saying the U.S. doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem, as if repetition made it true.
Meanwhile, some basic facts about budget arithmetic go unacknowledged. Confusing things further is a reliance on absolute numbers of spending and deficits which, if only because of inflation, are always setting new records for partisans to fulminate about.
Percentages offer perspective over time, especially when applied to government spending as a percentage of total economic activity, or GDP.
The first thing to recall from elementary arithmetic is that changing the denominator will change the percentage. Thus, the relatively low level of spending at the end of Bill Clinton's second term – 18 percent – is less a sign of governmental thriftiness than of a healthy GDP, then at its dot.com-era peak.
It's also a big reason why the current spending level – 22.4 percent of GDP – is larger. More robust economic growth would shrink the percentage. The state of the economy is reflected on the spending side as well: More people take advantage of "safety net" benefits during hard times.
The current spending percentage is high by historical measures, with18.5 percent of GDP the average over the last half-century, and is projected to hit 24 percent a decade from now. This has prompted several candidates to propose capping spending somewhere around 20 percent of GDP.
Lost in this argument is a factor that has been obvious for 50 years: the baby boomers are hitting retirement age. More than 200,000 boomers a month are leaving the labor force, a factor that also distorts data on employment. As the boomers hit their 60s, they have more medical needs. They are starting to collect the Medicare and Social Security benefits they have earned over long careers of working and paying taxes.
As Kenneth S. Baer and Jeffrey B. Liebman argued in a recent New York Times oped column, medical and retirement bills for aging boomers will be responsible for an increase in government spending worth 3.7 percent of GDP. Take that factor away, and projected spending isn't that far out of line.
That's not an "Obama spending spree," as his critics have said. In fact, Baer and Liebman note, discretionary spending these last four years has actually declined by 1.4 percent a year in inflation-adjusted dollars.
The aging of the baby boomers was inevitable and predictable. It's also temporary: Just as schools had to expand to handle boomers in the '50s and '60s, the retirement system will have to expand to accommodate them in the decade to come. As time passes, so will they, and spending will come down.
Congress can't stop the boomers from aging, and it shouldn't deprive them of benefits they've earned because of some arbitrary limit on government spending.
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. By S.C. Gwynne. Scribner, 371 pp., $27.50.
By Janice Harayda
No Indians of the Southern Plains had a more fearsome reputation than the Comanches. Nomadic warriors who liked to attack under a full moon, they inspired terror with their horned buffalo-wool caps and their ability to fire arrows while clinging to the sides of horses. They gang-raped women, speared babies with lances, and tortured male captives, sometimes by burning them to death. After a massacre, an Army captain reported seeing evidence of beheadings and victims whose "fingers, toes, and private parts had been cut off and stuck in their mouths."
In this worthy finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, S.C. Gwynne denies neither these atrocities nor the many betrayals by whites that helped to foster the warriors' thirst for vengeance. With journalistic balance and novelistic flair, he tells the story of the fall of the Comanches through the lives of three people who had entwined roles in it: Quanah Parker, their last great chief; his white mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, kidnapped by the tribe as a 9-year-old and removed from it against her will 24 years later by Texas Rangers; and Ranald Mackenzie, a brilliant Indian fighter who attended West Point with Gen. George Armstrong Custer. Of those three lives, only Quanah's did not end in tragedy, and Empire of the Summer Moon shows the cost of the American ideal of Manifest Destiny both to those who pursued it and to those who obstructed it. Few stereotypes of Indians have proved more tenacious than that of the "noble savage," but Gwynne shows that among native tribes as among whites, extraordinary courage often went hand-in-hand with comparable ignobility.
Best line: One passage describes what Comanches did after they gang-raped and shot several arrows into Martha Sherman, a white settler who was nine months pregnant: "They scalped her alive by making deep cuts below her ears and, in effect, peeling the top of her head entirely off."
Worst line: In a rare descent into sentimentality and cliché, Gwynne writes of Cynthia Ann after whites recaptured her: "And maybe she thinks, just for a moment, that all is right in the world."
Published: May 2010 (Scribner hardcover), May 2011 (Scribner paperback).
Read an excerpt from Empire of the Summer Moon.
Reading group guide: A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide to Empire of the Summer Moon appeared on this site on Oct. 3, 2011.
Furthermore: Empire of the Summer Moon was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Cynthia Ann Parker's capture provided part of the inspiration for in the movie The Searchers.
You may also want to read: The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America
You can follow Janice Harayda on Twitter at www.twitter.com/janiceharayda or by clicking on the follow button in the right sidebar. Jan is an award-winning journalist who has been the book columnist for Glamour and the book editor of the Plain Dealer in Cleveland.
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On September 11, 2008, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall at Harvard Law School in an address entitled "Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future." The Situationist is posting a loose, unofficial transcript of his remarks over the next couple weeks. You can link to Part I here and Part II here. The third part is below.
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So what would it take to solve these problems? I think fundamentally it would take three things to put it in very simple terms.
First, a scientific understanding of what's happening. And by that I mean rigorous evidence based quantified mechanistic approach to understanding the links of bio-physical processes, human economic activity, demographic change. It's complicated but one would make an effort honestly to talk about the real dynamics of a Darfur or Yemen or Pakistan, not the unbelievably mean-spirited, nasty, non-empathetic and ignorant ways we do. So we'd start with the scientific approach.
Second, and related, we would actually work hard at understanding what a suitable global-ethics might be for living together on a crowded planet. I don't think values just come out of nowhere unlike what economics teaches, I don't think that they're not to be discussed. That tastes are (something Latin, I think) I don't believe that, that we just take pace as given. I am more Aristotelian, that values and ethics come from an examined life and from reflection, and I don't think we do this almost at all systematically. So we have a very, very hard time being empathetic. And I actually think it's a failing by the way of our community, if I could put it that way.
I've been part of the Harvard community since 1972, and I still consider myself part of the Harvard community. And I don't think we're really good at this empathetic approach. I don't think we're really very good at understanding the other side in a deep way. And one of my erstwhile favorite publications The Economist, demonstrates for me the problem not the solution. It's a very clever magazine, very witty, very well-written. It lacks any sense of empathy, with the people that are being written about. So it's elitist in the worse sense. And that's our problem, and I think it's partly why we find ourselves so poor at being able to respond to attack. Though I don't think that's Barack Obama's problem at all. But I do think it is our community's problem, that we're just maybe by dint of privilege and the way that we talk about these problems, unaware of sometimes how divorced we are from ground realities.
I know that in the economics profession. And I know it from my own life because I was tenured before I knew anything – not quite. I knew how to write good journal articles. And they weren't all wrong by the way. Not all wrong, but they absolutely did not contain a central truths that I only came to understand by the real act of engagement.
And so I think this is another problem. So I think that global ethics is a second challenge.
And the third, and it's related to both of these, both science and ethics, is a capacity to look forward, or a will to try to understand the future that goes beyond the next year, or even your next three years at law school, or the next election. But actually tries to comprehend a dynamic process and thinks about our world at time scales that we're not good at thinking about. What would the world look like and be like in 30 years or 50 years or 100 years? Very hard questions, obviously not ones that we're going to get right. But ones that I think are important to think about at a time when we have a huge risk of getting things terribly wrong.
So what do we actually have right now in this country? We have an incredibly unscientific, or anti-scientific ethos. We elect presidents on the basis of God only knows — in the last election cycles, who you wanted to have a beer with. On this one, the great charge is elitism.
It's an absurdity that we are talking in these terms at this moment rather than talking about the challenges and the problems and what could be done to actually address them. So we have a very anti-scientific approach and a deliberate anti-scientific ethos. We've just gone through 8 years of surely the most aggressively anti-scientific and ignorant administration we've ever had. And I think it's put us and the world at an enormous risk. Washington is completely incapable of an honest statement, basic arithmetic, problem definition. The discussions about the drilling right now, absolutely pathetic. Because you can't even get an article which defines the oil, the flows, the timing, what it means, the tradeoffs in the kind of scientific discussion that one would want to have.
Everything is lies manipulated and public debate ala American Idol. And it's taken as normal and fun by our punditry who are part of it, and as innocent of the knowledge that they need to have as everybody else. And the world's treated as a game at a time when it can't be treated as a game. And when you have a vice-presidential nominee who professes beliefs that deny climate science or our creationist or anti-environmental conservation, a long record of denying the basic science on conservation biology for her own state. And this is not even an issue of concern or discussion. It shows the frivolity that we are living in right now. At a time when I think we can't afford that.
So we are anti-scientific. We're absolutely tribalist. We're at each other's throats in narrow communities. And we are so incredibly short-term and short-sighted that there is no discussion anywhere on any side about fifteen, twenty years from now about what kind of world we're trying to build.
I don't think, well I think Barack Obama's policies are vastly better and would stand a much better chance of keeping us alive, which I actually care about, especially for my children. I don't think that he's discussing the future in any serious way right now. His campaign centered on the tax cut in the next 4 months– by the way, the wrong policy, because we need those revenues for girding up our strength for serious investments in the future, not just to keep blowing holes in a government that is already incapable of doing anything serious on almost any front.
But it's more the short-sightedness that grab what we can. Let's talk about the housing bubble. Let's talk about the immediate foreclosures. Let's talk about everything except what really is going to count in 10, or 20, or 30, or 40 years, which are the things that we can actually do something about. So somehow the future is to take care of itself. And our time horizon has to be the next 6 months.
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Part IV of this series will pick up there. To watch the 90-minute video of Professor Sachs's remarks, click here.


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Why do mysteries and thrillers so often seem to dominate the bestseller lists? Why have writers as different as Agatha Christie and John Grisham both ranked among the most popular of their eras? Here's an answer from the novelist and critic David Lodge in The Art of Fiction (Viking, 1993), an excellent collection of 50 brief essays for serious readers on how the different aspects of fiction (such as irony, point of view and coincidence) relate to the whole:
"A solved mystery is ultimately reassuring to readers, asserting the triumph of reason over instinct, of order over anarchy, whether in the tales of Sherlock Holmes or in the case histories of Sigmund Freud, which bear such a striking and suspicious resemblance to them. That is why mystery is an invariable ingredient of popular narrative, whatever its form – prose fiction or movies or television soaps. Modern literary novelists, in contrast, wary of neat solutions and happy endings, have tended to invest their mysteries with an aura of ambiguity or leave them unsolved."
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Some critics have described the appeal of mysteries in starker terms. While Lodge argues that they assert "the triumph of reason over instinct" and "order over anarchy," others say that they are at heart morality tales – they represent the triumph of good over evil.
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A leading rationale against progressively higher income tax rates for top-earners is that high taxes will dissuade them from working hard, being innovative, or trying to be the best at whatever they do. This rationale has seemingly prevented a return of the very high marginal income tax rates used between 1951 and 1963, when taxable personal income over $400,000 was taxed to the tune of 91% by the federal government.
Now-a-days, taxable personal income over $373,650 is taxed at 35% by the federal government (the percent will increase to 39.6% in 2011 if the Bush tax cuts are not extended or made permanent. 39.6% was used during the Clinton years. When combining many states' income taxes, the effective rate would–at least for those high-earners living in states with progressive state income taxes–jump to close to 50%, but still much lower than 91%).
Keep in mind, only about 1.5% of the U.S. population earns over $250,000 a year, so a marginal tax rate increase for those earning over $373,650 is not an increase that would directly impact the vast majority of Americans. And yet such an increase is commonly viewed as harmful because it might, in the view of some, deter work ethic/innovation by those with entrepreneurial dreams and undermine a corresponding creation of jobs.
Is there any empirical or even anecdotal truth behind this rationale? Over on Daily Kos, a writer unequivocally says no in his piece titled "No Country for Zuckerbergs." The piece details the extraordinary success of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old who is now worth close to $7 billion and whose company has made many of the 1,200 Facebook employees very well off. The piece contends that innovative persons like Zuckerberg would not be dissuaded by higher taxes. Here's an excerpt:
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Mr. Zuckerberg, for example, in 2004 was staring at a top marginal tax rate of 35 percent, the Bush rate. It seems to me he considered paying that rate of tax would be worth the cost of earning himself almost $7 billion. Does anyone really believe he would not have founded Facebook if the tax rate was 39.6 percent, the Clinton rate? Is that extra 4.6 percent such a huge obstacle to success, that Mr. Zuckerberg would have decided Facebook and its prospects weren't worth the effort? How about Bill Gates of Microsoft staring at a top rate of 70 percent in 1979? Or perhaps Gordon Moore of Intel starting out with a top rate of 75 percent in 1968? Why did Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard start HP in a garage in 1939 with a top rate of 79 percent and then take the company public in 1957, during which time the top rate rose to 91 percent? 91 percent!
The fact is the idea that tax rates have anything to do with business creation is a myth. Nobody who has a great idea and good prospects is going to not go for it because of tax rates. Even if the tax rate was 100 percent over annual income of $1 billion, it isn't going to stop someone who has some moxie for going for that $1 billion a year. Lets face it, a billion dollars is a good living. Furthermore, it has almost nothing to do with job creation. American Express surveyed small business this year and found only 18 percent cared about high taxes. Only 8 percent were worried about the federal deficit. When asked "Which of the following would most incent you to hire," 67 percent of small businesses said more consumer demand or better economic outlook. Only 11 percent said tax credit.
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An increase in the top marginal tax rate is going to have no effect whatsoever on job creation or business investment. Business success has nothing to do with income tax rates and everything to do with the old-fashioned things: passion, perseverance, inspiration, timing, moxie, and most of all luck.
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